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Chapter 4 in God Speaks Your Love Language is about the love language of gifts. Just pause a moment and think about it. Do you like receiving a present? Do you like receiving a surprise present? Not everyone does. I … Continue reading →

Years ago when I was right in the middle of my career, I read a book called Finding God on the A Train.  I borrow the phrase in the title from the author Rick Hamlin. The book is about one … Continue reading →

Egbert, N and Polk, D. (2006).  Speaking the language of relational maintenance. A validity test of Chapman’s five love languages. Communication Research Report, 23, 19-26. You might be asking now, what is this? Some of you know that I have … Continue reading →

People who need quality time to talk to God and people who can give quality time to others and want it in return still have periods of time when they can’t have the quality time they desire. I have a … Continue reading →

The past three days I have written about different aspects of quality time.  The first day on Chapter 3, we discussed how quality time is not for everybody.  The second day we discussed how people who like quality time may … Continue reading →

As we read about Rod in Chapter 3, I wonder how many of us wonder about his experience when he joins the church. Going to the alter.  Being surrounded by men praying for him. The prayer being described as “I … Continue reading →

I was struck by the sentence Dr. Chapman quoted from Greta from Chapter 3:  “But now we are giving each other freedom to express our love to God differently.”  She was referring to her need for quality time with God … Continue reading →

Ok, my second highest score on my Love Languages Profile is quality time.  I scored a 9 for this language.  Thirty percent of my points on my profile are for quality time. I appreciate quality time but I am old. … Continue reading →

As we leave Chapter Two, the first chapter that focuses on one of the five love languages, I believe it is very fitting to write about the most important words of affirmation that we will ever speak, the affirming words … Continue reading →

I have been hanging out with Christian folks for many years and I have many, many friends and relatives who are Christian. However all my friends and relatives are not “like-minded”. Some are obsessed with the idea that we are … Continue reading →